[Alex3917]

Also, Cornell is named after a guy who made his money in the communication technologies business. Unlike Yale, Stanford, Duke, and most of the other elite schools in the U.S., which are named after drug dealers.

[kloncks]

Drug dealers!? Please elaborate.

[Duff]

Elihu Yale was a Governor of the British East India Company, which made the King rich by peddling drugs to the Chinese, among other thing.

Don't know about the rest.

[gcampbell]

I thought the preferred pejorative for Leland Stanford was "robber baron".

[Duff]

Or "Captain of Industry" in friendlier contexts.

[ctkrohn]

Duke's name comes from a tobacco businessman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Buchanan_Duke